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Our book 'Politicising Commodification: European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emergency' is out! And it's available in open access here: cambridge.org/core/services/…

Very glad to see the Political and Social Sciences at EUI topping the chart of the best polsci universities in the world! 🥳

This is what I keep thinking about. We published this in The Observer on Dec 4, 2016. The very first visualisation of the ‘fake news ecosystem’ - a new coinage & concept - created Jonathan Albright . It showed mainstream media being strangled. Imagine how it looks now…

Das ist eine gute Entwicklung. Der Vorschlag, den wir machen, sieht vor, die Schuldenbremse ausschließlich mit Blick auf Investitionen reformieren. Wenn Merz das jetzt auch so sieht, könnte es für eine Reform eine Mehrheit geben.

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Wealth inequality in🇮🇹 has increased substantially. The top 0.1% holds about 10% of total personal net wealth, the top 10% has a share >50%. The wealth share of the bottom 50% shows one of the strongest declines of all advanced economies.

Higher-quality regional institutions boost both female #employment and #fertility rates in the #EU. Good #institutions help reduce the “career vs. family” trade-off. Check out my new Journal of Economic Geography paper with Costanza Giannantoni doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lb…

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Out in English today Berlin Review: my review of the Draghi-report (link at end of thread). My take: If we zoom out from the technical stuff, the report becomes a funeral hymn to the Maastricht-EU. What does that mean? 1/

Swedish sociologist and social policy scholar Walter Korpi passed away earlier this week at the age of 90. His contribution to the field of comparative social policy research is both enormous and lasting. I extend my sincere condolences to his loved ones.

“If we exclude the tech sector, EU productivity growth over the past 20 years would be broadly at par with the US” - Draghi Fabulous article 🧵

Congrats and thanks to Amandine Crespy @ChloFlo4 for organising this great book on *Inequalities and the EU.* Honoured too to have been able to contributed to a chapter on the politics behind the adoption of the SURE programme (w/ Francesco Corti) More on this 👇

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The single most important article yet published on Trump's second term, by two scholars who since 2016 have been consistently correct in anticipating Trump's effect on our political system. Everyone should read it.

Male-female friendships are a under-rated driver of gender equality. When women can fraternise freely, they can share ideas, gain respect, & build empathy with men who care about their wants & welfare. Countries with high male-female friendships score better on equality 👇